Delicate American actress Winona Ryder is known for her dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin. Yes, her name is very much the same as her birthplace. Her parents, Cindy Horowitz Istas , an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller, were part of the hippie movement. She has a brother named Uri Horowitz , who got his first name after Yuri Gagarin, a half-sister named Sunyata Palmer , and a half-brother named Jubal Palmer from her mother Cindy's first marriage.
From , Winona grew up in a commune near Mendocino in California, which had no electricity. When Winona was seven, her mother began to manage an old cinema in a nearby barn and would screen films all day. She allowed Winona to miss school to watch movies with her. In , the family moved to Petaluma, California. Since Winona was considered an outsider in public school, she was sent to a public school and later to the American Conservatory Theater acting school. She was discovered at the age of thirteen by a talent scout at a theatre performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
In , she applied for a role in the film Desert Bloom David Seltzer, with a video in which she performed a monologue from the book 'Franny and Zooey' by J. Although the casting choice was fellow actress Annabeth Gish, director and writer David Seltzer recognised her talent and cast her as Rina in his film Lucas David Seltzer, about a teenager Corey Haim and his life in high school.
Her real hair colour is blonde but when she made Lucas , her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that colour and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands , it has stayed that color since. Her next film was Square Dance Daniel Petrie, , in which the protagonist she portrays lives a life between two worlds: on a traditional farm and in a big city.
Ryder's performance received good reviews, although neither film was a commercial success. In this comedy, she played Lydia Deetz, who moves with her family into a house inhabited by ghosts played by Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Keaton. Ryder, as well as the film, received positive reviews, and Beetlejuice was also successful at the box office.
